Legacy of the Ancients by Bain Darkblade

The night Muzuki attempts to steal the scroll, Naruto accidently taps into a power no one knew he had and meets a person who would change his life forever.

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto because if I did then I wouldn't be writing this!

Okay this is my first time writing a Fanfic so I look forward to the reviews! I am still in High school (for now), so please be patient as it might take me a while to update. Having said that please enjoy my unique spin off of the Naruto universe!

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Kyuubi or inner Sakura

Legacy of the Ancients

Chapter 1

A Fateful Encounter

"You are the nine tailed fox!" Mizuki yelled at Naruto, thoroughly enjoying the look of pain and despair that was stamped across Naruto's face as the reason for all that had happened to him in the past 12 years sunk in.

"Now die!" too fast for him to see Mizuki grabbed and threw one of the Fuuma shuriken from his back.

Naruto tried to get up but just ended up stumbling blindly backward. He turned around desperately crawling on his knees to try and get away from the whirling sound of the shuriken getting ever closer and closer.

"Naruto get down!"

Obeying Iruka, Naruto fell into a crouch with his arms over his head hoping to slow down the shuriken so he didn't die. Then he heard the wet sound of a weapon hitting flesh and thought that his life was over. Then he looked up to see the pained face of Iruka as he coughed up blood. Running through his though was why.

At the Hokage building a masked man in a black cloak was waiting for a meeting with the Hokage. He casually got up and walked over to the window and looked out the window and saw a blaze of activity as ninja were on every rooftop, looking everywhere and searching desperately for something. He hoped that it had nothing to do with the person he had come here to locate, for it would just make his task even harder than it already was. For the past few months he had gone from village to village, and he finally had traced a certain family tree to the hidden leaf. He shook his head maybe he was just being paranoid and the incident probably had nothing at all to do with him or his objective. So he sat back down and folded his hands behind his head, he could afford to be patient.

A few miles away Naruto sat behind a tree, listening intently to the conversation between Iruka and Mizuki.

"Naruto is the same as me."

"The same as you?" Iruka sounded puzzled and a little curious.

"Anything is possible with that scroll."

"There is no way that Naruto, the demon fox, will not use it's powers."

"Yeah are right."

Naruto gasped the one person who believed in him the one person who acknowledged him thought he was a monster. He was about to turn right there and leave the village behind forever, when he heard Iruka speak once more.

"If he was the demon fox, but Naruto is different."

"He is an excellent student that I recognize."

"He is a hardworking, clumsy and no one recognizes him."

"But he's not the demon fox, he's Uzumaki Naruto of Konoha!"

Mizuki just look at Iruka for a moment, his eyebrow twitching in annoyance as he grabbed that last of his huge shuriken from his back.

"Do you really believe that garbage? Iruka, I was going to finish you off after I had killed that demon but that speech was really annoying."

"Now Die!"

He then started spinning the shuriken like a buzz-saw as he charged toward Iruka intent on delivering the final blow.

No, thought Naruto, I won't let Iruka die and as he was standing there he felt a new power awake within him. This power felt different than Chakra, it felt darker and more violent, a power made up of pure rage and sorrow. He wanted this bastard to burn for hurting his Sensei, the one person who acknowledged him as a human. He wanted Mizuki to feel the pain he had caused with that one statement that had shattered his peace of mind. Memories of rage and pain at the torments of the village gathered within his mind and for the first time he felt strong. He focused that energy and gathered it all into his stomach. Where is sat aching for release and he knew the perfect target for it. He leapt out of his hiding place and looked at this man, who now looked joyfully at the sudden appearance of the demon container. Probably happy, knowing that he was not now only going to get to kill Iruka but also the demon itself. When he was mere feet away, Naruto took a deep breath and blew out the ball of hatred and anger as it erupted from his mouth he felt all his emotions leave. So he stood there and watched as though disconnected from the world around him, as a small red fireball raced toward Mizuki. Mizuki in his dash to attack Iruka and kill Naruto didn't see it coming until it was almost too late. He turned the spinning Fuuma shuriken in an attempt to block and dissipate what he thought was an underpowered Goukakyuu jutsu. But instead of being dissipated by the wind the fireball continued though the winds and hit the shuriken which immediately exploded. Mizuki jumped back but not quickly enough to avoid the fragments as they sliced into his chuunin flack jacket and gouged a deep wound on his left arm. He immediately looked at Naruto who mirrored his gaze of shock, not understanding what he had just done.

Back at the Hokage tower the man stiffened and sprang to his feet his mask falling off in his haste, and then he smiled it seemed he did not need the Hokage's help after all. That surge of power he had detected in the woods clearly showed him where he was needed. Without a second thought, he disappeared in a blue flash, leaving the poor secretary sitting at the desk a few feet away to rapidly blink to try and restore her vision to normal.

Suddenly a figure appeared in the middle of the clearing between Naruto and Mizuki. He wore a long black cloak that covered most of his body (think a longer version of the cloaks that the Akatsuki wear without the clouds) and he had long blond hair that flowed freely down his shoulders and piercing golden eyes. He looked toward Naruto with a look of pride that the blond was not used to seeing and when he spoke, his deep voice resonated with power.

"Not in many generations has one with your ability been born. And none have ever been able to tap into that the power that as you have until tonight."

Mizuki seemed to have recovered from his near roasting at this point and scoffed pointing at Naruto his with his uninjured hand, his voice filled with disdain and hatred.

"Why are you complimenting that thing? It's nothing more than a filthy demon and it needs to be exterminated before it can kill us!"

At this point the strangers head snapped around and a rage burned in his golden eyes and for the first time that night, Mizuki knew fear.

"A demon, shut up you bastard if you say so much as one more word…"

In his mind though Mizuki was forming the seals to a jutsu and at that moment he chose then to unleash it, "Doton: Boulder Crash no jutsu!" (sorry I have no skills with Japanese, and I don't know many doton techniques.)

A huge spiked boulder was flying at him as Mizuki laughed while shouting in a crazed voice, "For siding with the demon you will share his fate!"

Iruka was too shocked by the strange event going on around him and still too weak from the wound that Mizuki had inflicted upon him earlier, to do more than stare at the huge boulder that was coming toward them. Naruto looked at him and grimaced, he refused to leave his sensei to die. Then an idea then pooped into his head and he quickly formed a cross shaped seal and he gathered all the chakra he had and just as he was about to yell out his technique the stranger put a hand on his shoulder and shook his head smiling.

With a tremendous crash the area targeted by the boulder was covered in a huge cloud of dust. Mizuki smiled there was no way, he assumed, that this odd demon lover could have survived that attack, Iruka and the demon were now probably squashed underneath the massive spiked stone. He snickered as he promised to thank the man who had taught him the technique when he arrived at Iwa. He was sure that the tsugikage would be happy to hear that he had put his teachings to good use. That pathetic chunnin wannabe and his friend couldn't possibly have lived through that. He waited for the dust to clear wanting to bring the head of the demon, if it was still there, to the Tsuchikage to show his victory. What he saw next frightened him to the core of his being.

With one swift movement of the wings attached to his back the stranger blew away the dust cloud he had made by the shattered boulder. Inside Naruto and Iruka were staring at their rescuer with looks of awe as his true form was revealed. Due to the force of the technique the concealing cloak had been stripped away, revealing the stranger to be clad in a magnificent suit of black armor but not just any armor. It was a crystalline structure that encased its wearer from the base of the neck down and even though he had just used it to pound a huge rock to splinters the knuckles of the armor showed not even the slightest scratch. On his back were a pair of swords in an X and in between the large pair of wings and he had two more swords one on each hip. But it was the symbol front of his armor that was the most eye catching. For on the breastplate was a golden dragon with wings spread, its eyes were a pair of amethysts and if he didn't know any better he would swear that it was alive and watching.

"How dare you," The stranger's words were calm but his body was trembling with rage. "A demon? A demon! Without him this entire village would be nothing but dust! Without his power the true demon would have escaped long ago!"

The color of the armor began to change and then he drew out two of his swords one was a burning red crystal and the other just appeared in his hand, as if he had summoned it to his hand, it made of pure white crystal that was lit from within with an inner fire like a miniature sun. His wings started to glow white and his armor turned a glowing red, but it was the aura he projected that sacred Mizuki the most. For his eyes filed all of his vision, and the promise within them was that of a slow and painful death.

"Now you bastard let me show you the depths of your soul. I will show you oblivion right after your soul tears itself apart!"

Faster than any there could follow he flew at Mizuki.

The following slashes came so fast that all that was seen was a flash of white or red light and cut of the same color would appear on Mizuki's body. With a final kick to his head that sent him crashing into a tree. The stranger then slammed his blades together forming a new sword the balde of which was made of white and red fire in his right hand. He pointed the blade at Mizuki as he roared out the final part of his technique.

"Soul Nova Slash Ignite!"

Instantly all the cuts on Mizukis body ignited in either red or white flame and as he began to scream and thrash around desperately trying to put out the flames that now covered almost half his body. But all he managed to do was wrap himself completely in a shroud of the stuff. When at last the fires dissipated his entire body was burned black except for his eyes which were locked in a wide eyed stare of sheer agony with only the whites showing.

After looking down at the man with an expression of disgust he separated his swords and looked over at the stunned looks on both Naruto and Iruka's faces.

"Never have I used that technique on one as full of hatred and malice as this Mizuki was in life."

He sighed then sheathed his swords and walked over to Iruka and he then placed his hand over the large cut and it healed almost instantly. Iruka opened his mouth to thank him when a hand came down on his neck and his vision turned black. With a cry Naruto pulled out a kunai and ran to try and defend his fallen teacher, but was stopped as a black wing wrapped around him and gently, yet firmly holding him in place.

"Calm down," the man spoke calmly to Naruto as he turned his wing and head around to look at the struggling ninja that it held. "It's alright I'm not going to kill him, however," and here he kneeled down and placed a hand on Iruka's forehead and a blue light was shown emanating from his hand, it faded quickly though and he stood up releasing Naruto, "He has seen something that should not be known of quite yet, don't worry all I have done is modified a few memories and put him to sleep for the time being. Now I need you to come with me there is much that I have to tell you and not much time."

The stranger then held out his left hand to Naruto and he gingerly took it. The man gave him a look that was filled with sorrow, wondering how hard his life had been if he was so fearful of human contact. Then again, he mused, it's not every day that he would meet someone like me. He considered summoning another cloak but decided against it. It wouldn't do any good and he might as well let the boy see the power that he too could gain in time. He shook his head to dismiss his thoughts for another time and looked down at Naruto and gave him a smile to reassure him, that he had done nothing wrong.

"Don't be afraid, Naruto."

A blue light then emanated from his hand and a gathered around Naruto until he was completely encased in a barrier made of blue energy. Looking at his surroundings, he couldn't contain himself.

"This is so cool!" He looked back at the swordsman as though expecting a reprimand, but instead he was laughing a hand to his forehead as he attempted to gain control of himself.

"I guess it is pretty cool isn't it? Well the reason for that is that we are going to go somewhere where we won't be overhead and without the bubble you might find the trip there to be a little uncomfortable."

He then drew the blue sword from his left hip using his right hand and slashed a vertical hole in the air; he then motioned for Naruto to enter the glowing portal first. Naruto looked at him and decided then to try and trust him after all he had saved him and Iruka from Mizuki's justu, maybe he had just found another friend. And so with that thought he stepped into the portal and all sound was swallowed up in a terrifying roar. All that was around him was a whirling blue vortex, he shut his eyes as he was beginning to get nauseous and throwing up in a contained space was not something he wanted to experience. When the roaring finally stopped he opened his eyes and gasped for he had never seen anything like this. He was in a large greenhouse filled with blooming plants and a grassy field that looked like it was impeccably cared for. There was a small river in the middle of the field leading to a lake where a few large koi lazily swam, basking in the sun. In the center was a small glass walled room, in it he could see a few comfortable looking easy chairs and a few small book cases.

He heard a sizzling sound and he saw the man stepping through the portal, shaking his head as though dizzy. What he saw Naruto trying to look everywhere at once, he smiled at his antics and cleared his throat to get his attention.

"Naruto do you like it here?"

Naruto looked at him and he didn't even have to speak for his answer to be clearly evident. The stranger smiled kindly.

"Now Naruto, I know you probably want to look around here some more but right now we have much to discuss and little time so please follow me."

He then led him over to the small glass walled study in the center of the lawn and opened the door mentioning for him to sit down. Taking one of the easy chairs he motioned for Naruto to take the other one.

"Now I'm sure that you have more than a few questions you want answered now keep in mind that I won't be able to answer all of them but I will try my best to help you understand what you are going through."

Naruto looked at him with for a moment a confused look as he pondered what questions he was going to ask first. While he was doing that the swordsman debated slipping just a bit of his thoughts past Naruto's public mind to try and find out a little more about the boy. He decided against it, as if he was detected he would quickly lose what little trust he had gained in his act of saving the boy and his sensei. But he could easily guess what kind of abuse he had been through in a village that both hated and feared him. For in his lifetime he had seen many things both cruel and callous inflicted upon the outcasts and scapegoats of society. But to inflict that pain on a mere child, to him that was absolutely unforgivable. I hope that he can forgive me for what I have done, he has been through so much already. As he thought this his eyes hardened and his resolve to help Naruto strengthened. I don't care about anything else this time I won't fail in my new role. As he was thinking all this, Naruto's mind was going crazy with a million different questions. Who is this man? What is with that armor? How the hell did he do that? How did he know my name? He finally settled on the one that seemed the most appropriate.

"Who are you?"

The stranger smiled; maybe this young one had more in him than anyone yet knew, for he did not expect a boy of 13 to ask a question that cut to the heart of the matter.

"You show a surprising amount of restraint considering your age, I think that would be the last question that most would ask right now. Very well to answer your question my given name in Bain Phaern as for who I am…"

Here Bain stopped and braced himself as if preparing himself for the worst, but he thought in retrospect it is better for him to know now than to be accidently stumble across this information at a later date so.

"I guess you could call me your great grandfather."

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Didn't see that one coming did you? Man I love cliffhangers! New abilities and a new explanation of his world await Naruto in my next update, so be prepared for the many surprises that wait in my next chapter. FYI this will NOT be super powered Naruto! But he will be stronger and get many of the things that are far different than in the actual anime. Having said that I might take a while to update as I first want to see the response to my first chapter before deciding if I should take the time to continue writing or not. Please review.

PS. Constructive criticism is welcome but flames will be ignored!